Behind the scenes
Removing varnish is not the same as overpainting
On The Night Watch, what disappears is a later skin, not a picture. That work is precise, and not entirely reversible.
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Behind the scenes
Museum stories
At the Depot, you see how a collection breathes
Behind the mirrored façade in Rotterdam there is no secret attic, but a building that makes storage visible.
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Museum stories
A photograph is chemistry that keeps changing
In the Santos warehouse in Rotterdam lies a visual memory of millions of images. Not every print decays in the same way.
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Van Gogh
When the red drops out of the mix
Purple was red plus blue. When the red disappears, what remains is a different colour from the one he mixed.
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Van Gogh
Jo van Gogh-Bonger put the work into circulation
After Vincent and Theo died, a widow was left with a child, letters and paintings. Visibility became her work.
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